Mike Gruss is a veteran defense reporter and Editor-in-Chief of Sightline Media Group, which includes Army Times, Air Force Times, Dense News, Military Times and Navy Times. From 2013 to 2016, Mike served as a Senior Staff Writer for SpaceNews covering national security space programs and military space policy in the U.S. Congress. Mike earned a bachelor's degree in English and American Studies from Miami University and has previously wrote for the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Virginian-Pilot in Virginia before joining SpaceNews. Prior to joining Sightline in 2017, he was a senior editor of FedTech magazine covering technology in federal government. You can see Mike's latest project on Twitter.
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DARPA had scrapped plans to launch small satellites from a modified F-15 fighter jet after two test of a new rocket fuel ended in explosions this year.

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The U.S. Air Force awarded Johns Hopkins University $545,00 to study additive manufacturing techniques to make cooling chambers for liquid rocket engines.

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The service is looking for new data from commercial providers to better map satellite movements and help detect threats to U.S. military satellites.

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Service officials said the last satellite in the GPS 2F series is expected to launch Feb. 3, 2016.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne has made an unsolicited bid to buy U.S. government launch services provider United Launch Alliance for $2 billion.

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The U.S. Air Force hopes to build an experimental satellite to detect nuclear explosions and monitor the space environment from geosynchronous orbit.

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The Missile Defense Agency hopes to draft a preliminary design for a new kill vehicle by the end of the year.

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Tory Bruno, the president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance, took to Twitter to discuss the heritage of his company's new Vulcan rocket.

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A new missile interceptor co-developed by the United States and Japan made its maiden flight June 6 in a non-intercept test.

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If you've been a fan of NASA's website for more than a decade, you can thank an unlikely space geek: actor Tom Cruise.

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A 20-year-old military weather satellite apparently exploded in orbit Feb. 3 following what the U.S. Air Force described as a sudden temperature spike.

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SpaceX plans to convert a launch pad into a landing pad for the reusable rocket boosters it is developing to power its Falcon family of rockets.

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SBIRS will be among the first programs subjected to an acquisition reform initiative that will help find favorable trade-offs between cost and capability.

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Lockheed Martin will build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation space surveillance system.

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